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Question What am I doing wrong?
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You cut inside the lines. Don't do that. This board is dead because you cut through some of the RAM lines at the very least. Parts of your cut also look very rough, so even if you had cut around the lines you would likely still have shorts on your voltage layers.
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So when I cut my new board, I should extend my lines a bit?
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You should follow the lines outlined in the guide exactly.
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Ok. Thanks for your quick reply.
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I got a new Wii, trimmed it, and wired it up. Still not booting. I have a 5v power source bumped down to their allocated values and I don’t know what I am doing wrong. I am starting to loose hope in this project. Does anyone have advice/ corrections to what I did? Also, is the boot dependent on the thumb drive being plugged in? I have a few games that I put on it and tested to see if it was working before the trim and it was fine.
There are many things wrong here. Most obviously, given that this is a 6 layer board, you must connect the two 1.8v points together (see the 6 layer expansion trimming guide). Next, none of these wires on the back are going to fly. They are likely shorting with many things, you must pick up some magnet wire (34 or 38awg), certainly for things like the U10 relocation. A good solder joint should not require electrical tape to hold it in place. Additionally, it's a really bad idea to have floating soldering joints such as on your wires to the regulators. Use some heatshrink if you intend on soldering wires together. If you don't have a thumb drive in, you should short reset to ground and test if it will boot to priiloader. Without USB, it should still display a screen that says no USB after around 30 seconds. That said, the trim is probably fine. But your wiring needs some serious work.
